Motivational Quotes

Change

Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

- A Course In Miracles

Best Quotes about Change

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

10.

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

11.

Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

14.

You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

15.

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

16.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

17.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

18.

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

19.

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

21.

A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

22.

Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

23.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

25.

Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

26.

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

27.

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

28.

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

33.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

34.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

35.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

40.

Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

41.

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

42.

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

49.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe